Monetary Value of a Life Expectancy Gain due to Reduced Air Pollution : Lessons from a Contingent Valuation in France

Desaigues, Brigitte; Rabl, Ari; Ami, Dominique; Kene, Boun My; Masson, Serge; Salomon, Marie-Anne; Santoni, Laure

doi:10.3917/redp.175.0675

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“…That is, the willingness to pay to increase life expectancy is less if poor health rather than good health is assumed (Chilton et al, 2004). Fifth, people are found to have difficulty in fully understanding and valuing risk, with WTP for reductions in premature mortality risk leading to very wide ranges (Desaigues et al, 2007). Consequently, the derived bid values for a VOLY are highly sensitive to the framing of the WTP bid, and often show a wide range of WTP bids.…”

Section: Challenges In Measuring Volymentioning

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Valuing a Statistical Life Year in Relation to Clean Air

Hein

Roberts

González

2016

J. Env. Assmt. Pol. Mgmt.

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Environmental cost-benefit analysis is increasingly used to support the formulation of European air quality policies. In these analyses, typically around three-quarters of the societal benefits of cleaner air are related to monetised increases in statistical life expectancy. However, the literature presents widely diverging estimates for the value of a statistical life year (a 'VOLY'). This paper presents a review of studies aimed at establishing a VOLY as used in European air quality policies and it examines the factors that cause the variations in VOLY estimates. We discuss the implications of our findings for European air quality policies and also present a novel approach to analyse the VOLY. We have labelled our approach the 'maximum societal revenue VOLY' (MSR-VOLY), and postulate that this approach may be particularly useful in the context of natural capital accounting.

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Section: Challenges In Measuring Volymentioning

confidence: 99%

Valuing a Statistical Life Year in Relation to Clean Air

Hein

Roberts

González

2016

J. Env. Assmt. Pol. Mgmt.

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“…The second scenario involves moving the whole household (see Appendix C) to an already less polluted city (Viscusi et al, 1988;Guria et al, 2005;Aprahamian et al, 2007). The third scenario is about new regulations (see Appendix D) on air pollution that will increase market prices (Desaigues et al, 2007).…”

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When do social cues and scientific information affect stated preferences? Insights from an experiment on air pollution

Ami¹,

Aprahamian²,

Chanel³

et al. 2018

Journal of Choice Modelling

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Stated preference surveys are usually carried out in one session, without any follow-up interview after respondents have had the opportunity to experience the public goods or policies they were asked to value. Consequently, a stated preference survey needs to be designed so as to provide respondents with all the relevant information, and to help them process this information so they can perform the valuation exercise properly. In this paper, we study experimentally an elicitation procedure in which respondents are provided with a sequence of different types of information (social cues and objective information) that allows them to sequentially revise their willingness-to-pay (WTP) values. Our experiment was carried out in large groups using an electronic voting system which allows us to construct social cues in real time. To analyse the data, we developed an anchoring-type structural model that allows us to estimate the direct effect (at the current round) and the indirect effect (on subsequent rounds) of information. Our results shed new light on the interacted effect of social cues and objective information: social cues have little or no direct effect on WTP values but they have a strong indirect effect on how respondents process scientific information. Social cues have the most noticeable effect on respondents who initially report a WTP below the group average but only after receiving additional objective information about the valuation task. We suggest that the construction and the provision of social cues should be added to the list of tools and controls for stated preference methods. "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." Galbraith, 1971.

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“…Daí que os autores do estudo proponham a valorização rança de vida (as questões originais debruçavam-se sobre o valor da perda de esperança de vida) (Desaigues et al 2007).…”

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The environmentally most advantageous offer: internalization of environmental externalities through award criteria in public procurement

Almeida¹

2014

BCE

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Monetary Value of a Life Expectancy Gain due to Reduced Air Pollution : Lessons from a Contingent Valuation in France

Cited by 17 publications

References 16 publications

Valuing a Statistical Life Year in Relation to Clean Air

Valuing a Statistical Life Year in Relation to Clean Air

When do social cues and scientific information affect stated preferences? Insights from an experiment on air pollution

The environmentally most advantageous offer: internalization of environmental externalities through award criteria in public procurement

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